Конспект урока на тему Theatre and cinema

Theme of the lesson: Theatre and cinema: How it all began (modal verbs, passive voice)

The aims of the lesson:

Educational: to talk with pupils about history of cinema and theatre, to give them more information about modern cinematography, to practice modal verbs and passive voice.

Developing: to develop pupils’ speaking and writing skills, attention, logical thinking, and ability to converse.

Cultural: to bring pupils up to value industry, to work so hard to achieve the biggest dream.

Visual aids: presentation

The type of the lesson: work with technology

Procedure of the lesson:

I. Organization moment.

-Good afternoon, children! How are you doing?

- Who is on duty today?

- Who is absent? Thank you, sit down.

II. Checking up the home task:

• What was your home task? Are you ready? All right, who wants to start? You have done your exercises very well. Good for you!

1. Presentation of the lesson:

• We are still continuing our theme about popular arts. This lesson we will devote to cinema and theatre. Which one of them do you prefer most? Why? Have you ever been in theatre? How many theatres in our city? What do you know about Broadway? What is your favorite film?

• Broadway theatre, commonly called simply Broadway, is theatrical performances presented in one of the 40 professional theatres with 500 or more seats located in the Theater District and Lincoln Center along Broadway, in the Manhattan borough of  New York City. Along with London's West End theatres, Broadway theatres are widely considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English-speaking world.

• The Broadway Theater District is a popular tourist attraction in New York City. According to The Broadway League, Broadway shows sold approximately $1.193 billion worth of tickets in calendar year 2013, compared with $1.158 billion for 2012. Attendance in 2013 stood at 11.58 million, down from 12.16 in 2012.

• The history of theatre charts the development of theatre over the past 2,500 years. While performative elements are present in every society, it is customary to acknowledge a distinction between theatre as an art formand entertainment and theatrical or performative elements in other activities. The history of theatre is primarily concerned with the origin and subsequent development of the theatre as an autonomous activity. Since classical Athens in the 6th century BCE, vibrant traditions of theatre have flourished in cultures across the world.

• The history of film began in the 1890s, with the invention of the first motion-picture cameras and the establishment of the first film production companies and cinemas.

• Remind me what is passive voice? Active constructions are used more often in English than passive constructions. Generally, you need the passive voice in the following cases: Case 1: When it is not known or not necessary to mention who performs the action. Cotton is grown in Egypt. Case 2: When it is necessary to draw more attention to the receiver of the action. In this case, the object in the active construction becomes the subject in the passive construction and receives more attention. A phrase with the preposition "by" is used if it is necessary to show by whom the action is performed. Several houses were destroyed by the hurricane last week. Now give me your own examples.

1. Practice:

- There is a text, called “Theatre and Cinema: How it all began”. Read it and be ready to answer the questions:

1. In what country was theatre born?

2. Why do we have to remember Thespis?

3. When was cinema born?

4. What country produced the first dramatic film?

5. Why film “Jazz Singer” is important for the history of cinematography?

- Now I want you to divide into 2 groups, let’s make a discussion. The first group is going to show us disadvantages of cinema and the second group has to talk about its advantages. If task is clear, you may start.

- it is enough, now let’s talk about theatre. The first group takes its advantages and the second group takes its disadvantages. Please use only facts.

- Very good. Look at the next task: find English equivalents from text to those words.

1. Conclusion:

• Excellent! We have few minutes until the end of the lesson, so who wants to remind us, what we have learnt today?

1. Giving the marks and home task:

• Open your dicaries and write down your home task: to do rest of exercises until the next Unit. You were very active today and here are your marks: …